Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1887-07-01
OUR INDUSTRIES.
po;ngs Of Organized Labor in the
Various Sections Of the
Country.
National Trade District Movement Among
the Knights-Among the Mines
and Mills.

the Knights for separate national trade as
sociations. The harnessmakers will want
one; the brassworkers have asked for one;
the ironworkers have organized for one;
and the coopers, painters, and decorators
insist on separate control. score of other
crafts are asking for q separate room i'll the
great Order where they can talk things
over. The experiments already made have
shown that there is nothing in the move
ment of a disintegrating character. but that
in reality this step is q cementing one.
NEW ENGLAND textile manufacturers
are generally improving their capacity and
putting in better machinery to decrease
cost. A New Hampshire firm has ordered
a cargo of wool from San Francisco around
Cape Horn on account of high freights.
The Pepperell Mill, in Maine, has just
divided d half million dollars in dividends,
and has n million dollars left.
FlvEnational 1shf,, ; ;:zia.s inst held
their annual sessions-the printers ut
Buffalo, the shoemakcrs at Brockion, the
IRON workers at Pitsburg, and the ma
chinery workers and miners at Cincinnati.
There were POI, 00G shoemakers said to be
represented through $50 delegates ut
Brockton. The iron-workers had $50
delegates.
Fort WORTH, Texas, is to be made q
wool and sheep depot with immense stock
yards and securing establishments. 1t
now costs SLAB to pay the freight on 100
pounds of grease and dirt, and this is TO be
saved by the securing establishments.
| Fort Worth says that she will yet rival
| Philadelphia as wool center.
FoUR railroads are now being built in
Georgia to center at Atlanta. 1t will then
be the greatest railroad center in the South.
These roads will run through coal, lumber,
and agricultural sections, and already syn
dicates are operating along the projected
| lines, securing control OF the most desira-
BILE lands.
THE New York silversmiths have surren-
dered and gone to work. Nearly all the
cabinet makers shops of New York have
established the nine-hour system. new
organ (monthly) has been established in
New York to represent the National Fed
Grafton. The Furriers' Union voted SIS to
the Chicago anarchists.
A LONDON paper says there is not one
corner of Europe where American small
cos: hardware is not for sale. Krupp, of
Germany; Armstrong, of England. and
Hotchkiss, of France, with all their vast
resources are unable to produce a monkey
or screw-b bar wrench equal to the American
wrenches.
THE builders in the small towns all owe,
the country are reporting an increasing
demand for small houses. The building
and loan association fever is spreading in
the West. The outflow OF money nom
sluggish financial localities in the East is
stimulating enterprise i'll great many
small channels.
WESTERN cities and towns are devel-
oping their manufacturing capabilities
rapidly. Denver, COL, is becoming al
produce S3e,00O, 600 worth of products thi:
Year. Eastern manufacturers are pioneer.
ing over the West seeking opportunities.
THE London papers are complaining tina
as fast as British worklnen leave theil
shores the gap is filled up with German
workmen and workmen from Russia. The,
don't want the pauper labor of the CONT
nent shot" there. The remedy is in the
highest degree obscure.
THE question of employers right to en-
ploy non-union labor will not be surren
dered without bitter struggle. Boston
building employers have been placing them.
selves III position to open the fight. The
workmen, iu anticipation OF trouble, ar,
strengthening their lines.
EASTERN farmers and well-to do me.
chanics are lending, through agencies
much OF their spare cash on Western mort
cages. This exchange ought to have beer
built up long ago. Money commands yer,
low rates of interest East and EXCEPTIONAL,
high rates in the West.
ONE well-known make of boiler has bee,
sold to Che extent Of $4,000 horse powe
in New York, Pennsylvania, and New der
sey. Great ingenuity and STUDY are beins
centered on boiler making, and marked
Improvements have been completed With,
q few months.
An enthusiastic Westener, WHO writes Al
though he were posted. says $50. OOu, Out
could be safely invested in The sugar
making and growing industry in the South
and that there are excellent opportunitie
for jute and ramie manufacturing.
The Northern investors in souther,
pis.iron plants are greatly encouraged b,
the active demand in Western markets TO-
the entire product of furnaces. This vii
lead to further extension OF capacity. Cox,
is scarce.
AT Dallas, Texas, half million dolla
cotton mill is to be built. The Roanoke
Cotton Mills, Va, are to have Il capital o
S25O,0GO. Another cotton mill is to h
started at Columbia, S. c., with capita
OF S500,OU0.
|
favorably considered in the Knights as
semblies, and the land theories of George
while favorably regarded at distance. ar
not considered good matters to adyunc
wages with.
A GREAT many Philadelpha-made boil
ers are finding their way into Eastern mill
and factories. -Four 125 horse power safet
boilers have just been put in at East Ware
ham, Mass.
IHE Kansas City carpenters are lookin
q long way ahead. They announce tha
they won't work more than eight honr
after next June, and want 80 cents an hou,
THE miners are earnestly endeayorinc i
avert strikes i'll the future, and, if met wit
half the candor they feel, measures will i
devised by watch justice can be done.
The expressed opinion of labor dele
gates at the various trade conventions
that the improving condition OF THING
Justlfies the advances they desire to huv
made. N1''
FLoTRlSG and girls. mills employ rs ne
cent. OF all the water-power used; saw
mills, % per cent; cotton mills, l.; paper
mills, Z; and WOODEN mills, ~.
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